CUBAN AND LATIN AMERICAN CULTURAL IDENTITY STUDIES NETWORK: ITS GENESIS AND METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS

The Network of Studies of Cuban and Latin American Cultural Identity is created with the aim of uniting wills in the process of systematization, assessment and visibility of existing research results and envisions the conception of new research nuclei in the analysis of the complexity of the phenomenon. This article describes its structure: composed of a nucleus or foundational node to which five nodes are associated: educational institutions; childhood-youth; cultural practices-local development; tourism-heritage and social communication media; as well as its operation given by the relationships that are established between them. The methodology used is qualitative. The participatory action research method is used, complemented with other empirical methods and modeling to formalize and give concreteness to the Network. As the main result, the methodological design of the Network of Studies of Cuban and Latin American Cultural Identity is described, which converts the diversity and complexity of studies on cultural identity in a fortress for the production of scientific knowledge in a collaborative environment, which allows and favors the flow and visibility of research results.